Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Clive Sinclair Quote: 'In 1966, I bought my parents ...'

Related Quotes

My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.
Marina Abramovic
water sea turquoise ripple texture
In December 1988, my mother died of lung cancer. I died too. I couldn't function.


Sandra Dee
Tags: Too Mother Died
fiss ladis tyrol austria mountains
We owned a bearded collie for many years. Sophie. She was old, and she died last year.


Erika Slezak
Tags: Years Many Old
When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century's major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern urbanism.
Martin Filler
Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.
Allan Bloom
Tags: Up Always Had
I got my very last tattoo after my father died. I'm not getting anymore; otherwise I'll end up like Mike Tyson with a tattoo on my face.
Seann William Scott
Tags: Like Up Very
The last four years have not diluted the memory or weakened the resolve of our citizens. Four years later, our hearts still hurt for the families whose loved ones were murdered that day.
John Doolittle
Tags: Our Were Years
clouds white nature spring
Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.


Matthew Prior
Tags: Last Night Died
My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them and other Jews. My parents loved the dialect of Vienna, its cultural sophistication, and artistic values.
Eric Kandel
Tags: Them Other Years
My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
Steve Jobs
Tags: Out Had Would
I'm actually Cuban-born, born in 1956, the year Fidel Castro came into power, and my father moved my family to Miami a few years later when things were starting to look bad.
Steven Bauer
The doctor said, 'He can't last a week.' And I did. And they said, 'There's no way this kid's going to last a month.' And I did. And so they said, 'Two years. He's not going to make it.' Two years. 'Five years. He can't do that.' I lived to be five years. 'He's never going to hit double digits.' And here I am, a new teenager.
Mattie Stepanek
Tags: Never Make Way
When my parents died they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases; one being diabetes.
Stephen Furst
My great-great-grandfather lived to age 28, my immigrant great-grandfather Pedro Gotiaoco died at 66, my grandfather was 68, and my father died at 34.
John Gokongwei
Tags: Age Father Lived
I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.
Bobby McFerrin
Tags: Me About Them
sunset beach sea water horizon
Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding.


Ken Livingstone
Tags: Wedding Get Go
I grew up very nice. But after college, my father said you're on you own. So I was dead broke for years. So I know what it's - I lived on 600 dollars a month for six years. I know what it's like to be dead broke. I feel bad for people who are struggling now.
Jon Lovitz
Tags: You People Like
So when I got the chance to do my first talk show, 50 years ago last month, I never had any writers. There was no budget - it was just me and the camera and my friend who was the director. I talked about what I'd done that week.
Regis Philbin
Tags: Chance Me About
dolomites mountains italy
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.


Steven Wright
Tags: People Up Got
In my father's later years he asked several times that I remember him the way I knew him. He said that after his death, people would talk. They would say 'things' about him and he wouldn't be there to defend himself.
Jennifer Grant